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Leadership and Management of Machining

How to Integrate Technology, Robust Processes, and People to Win!

  • 1st Edition - January 20, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Tim A Osswald
  • Language: English

Global machining competitiveness has evolved to the level that requires a holistic approach to management and technology implementation. Connectivity, data, and digitization pr… Read more

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Global machining competitiveness has evolved to the level that requires a holistic approach to management and technology implementation. Connectivity, data, and digitization provide opportunities for significant improvements in modeling, programming, simulation, productivity, and real-time decision making.

This book demonstrates how to integrate these technological advancements with Lean, Six Sigma, CNC programming, quality, and machining best practices to create an agile machining organization capable of winning against competition anywhere in the world.

Written for the entire organization, this book focuses on the business of machining and how to develop the infrastructure and people to yield exceptional quality, delivery, and profits. The author introduces a new model—the Machining Pyramid—that integrates, people, equipment, and robust processes to create the architecture and blueprint for high performance.

Readership

Production managers, supervisors, production schedulers, trainees

Table of contents

LAYER 1: FOUNDATION. Quality System. People. Leadership. Equipment. Information Technology.

LAYER 2: SKILL LEVEL. Lean. Six Sigma. CNC Program Validation. Routing Integrity.

LAYER 3: EXECUTION LEVEL. Scheduling/Capacity Management. Operations Management. Supply Chain Execution

LAYER 4: RESULTS. Low Scrap/Rework. On-Time Delivery.

LAYER 5: ULTIMATE RESULTS. Profit. For Machinists Only. Sales. Selling or Acquiring a Machining Company. Machining Ten Commandments. Future.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 20, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Tim A Osswald

Dr. Tim A. Osswald teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is co-Director of the Polymer Engineering Center. He also holds honorary professorships at the Friedrich Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He teaches and does research in polymer engineering, a field where he has published 11 books and over 300 papers.

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